“The Mission Statement of Beach Cities Volleyball is to ‘Teach life skills and volleyball skills from 8 to 18’. As with any endeavor of this nature, the coaches and wonderful families who have been part of the Beach Cities Volleyball have made this all occur.”
Since then we have faced a global recession, global pandemic, and 10,000 bumps in the road, but with God’s blessings are still going. We had four players at the first tryouts but worked hard and were able to provide programming for four teams the first year, and then 10 teams the second year. In Chip’s words: “Tony Mayrie, Don Shaw and I started things at tryouts in October 1999. He is married to Sarah Purcell Schulte, and has two sons and a daughter, 8 grandchildren, and one stepson. He served as President/CEO or as CFO of six business entities from 1974 to 2000, when he started Beach Cities Volleyball. Chip graduated from Palisades High School, received his Bachelor of Arts in Speech-Economics in 1969 from California University, an MBA from Rutgers University in 1971, a CPA License in December 1972, and an MPI from USC in 1978.
